Watch Mythago morris dancers perform The Legend of Herne the Hunter to launch Dark Fest in Worthing

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00:26Join us as we approach All Hallows' Nights

00:34to mark the mysterious in-between time,

00:39a time belonging neither to this world or that beyond,

00:45when the doors to the other world are open

00:47and the spirits roam abroad.

00:50Since time immemorial, Christians and pagans alike

00:56have met this night to remember and honour those who have passed,

01:02and over time these customs merged,

01:05giving rise to our modern celebration of Halloween.

01:11Tonight we gather to carry out the old folk custom of souling,

01:16when disguised revellers would visit ale-houses by night

01:22to perform their strange tale of death and resurrection.

01:28The tale we shall tell is one that has come down through the ages.

01:34The tale of a great huntsman whose spirit haunts the ancient woodlands.

01:39This is the legend of Hearn the Hunter.

01:46In times long past there was a great hunter named Hearn,

01:51mighty and skilled the king's admiration he earned.

01:55Through the great forest of Windsor they rode bow in hand

02:00to hunt for the deer that roamed the king's land.

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03:31Save him, you huntsman, the king, he did cry.

03:36The jealousy meant that they left him to die.

03:41But an answer came swift to his cries of dismay.

03:45The sound of a stranger through the forest was nearing,

03:49and from the trees came a wizard who entered the clearing.

03:54I can heal him, said the wizard, but the price will be high.

04:00Refuse what I say, and I'll leave him to die.

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04:43With much fear and dread, the stag's severed antlers were placed on Hearn's head.

04:55The wizard took Hearn to his forest bower home, and with spells and potions he cured flesh and bones.

05:03The king was overjoyed to have Hearn back, but his cheer turned to sorrow as he remembered his pact.

05:12For although Hearn had been cured of all of his ills, the bargain had left him bereft of his skills.

05:21Realising the price that had been paid, Hearn fled to the forest, alone and afraid.

05:27The children said Hearn had the oak tree crows.

05:57His spectral hunters would meet and ride through the forest to an eerie hoofbeat.

06:07And even today in Windsor Great Park, all people are warned, keep away in the dark!

06:16For at midnight, in moonlight, the great oak will part, revealing Hearn and the wild hunt, and the spectral white heart.

06:26What would he die seldom know?

06:31It would be.

06:34The way Hearn refers to me when Hearn went to the road with gamma, and wherever he is

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